Heavy rain and hail pounded the south metro area and El Paso County on Wednesday night, with street flooding, funnel clouds and tornadoes in the heaviest-hit areas from Parker south to Colorado Springs.

National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina said a small tornado was spotted just north of Denver International Airport about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The agency received a report of another tornado in the northeastern Colorado community of Grover about 6:40 p.m. that ripped out a small tree and threw it about 20 feet.

Severe-weather meteorologist Reed Timmer, who starred on the reality-TV show “Storm Chasers,” was in the Parker area in his vehicle, called the Dominator. He reported on his Facebook page about 8:20 p.m. that he was encountering hail accumulations of more than 6 inches.

The Gazette reported that flash floods made several Colorado Springs roadways impassable and that the city was pelted with hail.

Flooding crippled the east side of Colorado Springs, leaving drivers stranded in deep water, The Gazette said, and firefighters were busy locating drivers who had abandoned their cars. Denver Post staff and wire reports

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.